To create their ranking, Estately analyzed Facebook data to calculate the percentage of users who listed each of twelve “nerdy” things as interests on their profiles: Star Trek: The Next Generation, cosplay (or costume play, a term for dressing up and role playing a character), Harry Potter, Star Wars, anime movies, Dungeons & Dragons, LARPing (or Live Action Role-Playing), Doctor Who, fantasy literature, Lord of the Rings, Magic: The Gathering, and comic books.

Utah topped all other states in terms of interest in six of these factors: cosplay, Harry Potter, Star Wars, LARPing, fantasy literature, and Lord of the Rings. Nerd havens Alaska, Wyoming, and Idaho claimed the next three spots in the rankings.

Regionally, it seems like the west is generally nerdier than the east. America’s geekiest states tended to be rural, western ones like Colorado and New Mexico, Estately points out. And states with lower populations were more likely to have higher nerd populations.

On the other hand, “the South is a virtual nerd desert,” with many of the ten least nerdy states falling below the Mason-Dixon line (Mississippi, George, and Alabama, for example). The eastern seaboard is similarly low on geeks, with Washington, D.C. ranking as the least nerdy spot of them all, and New Jersey and Massachusetts close behind. There’s one notable exception, though: Rhode Island is “an island of nerdom along the coast of the Atlantic,” Estately writes.